[Mamzelle]

GOP is not in bed with insurance companies--at least not the way you imply. The problem is going to be finding a way to keep people covered, period. A lot of the better companies leave the business, and where does that leave us? Scolding, suing, regulating insurance companies is not fixing the system. Would that "getting in bed" would help.

I could go on for pages on the pressures that are driving the costs of medical care upwards. A collapse of medical insurance, in its entirety, is inevitable unless the will is found to make some simple (simple, not easy) changes.

[lentulusgracchus]

A collapse of medical insurance, in its entirety, is inevitable unless the will is found to make some simple (simple, not easy) changes.

Which is exactly what Bill and Hillary intended, when they turned the insurance companies loose by changing the law to allow insurance companies to buy PPO's and HMO's -- they knew that the insurance companies would simply fall on the medical-delivery system and gobble it up in an attempt to control costs.

They destroyed fee-for-service, in order to pave the way for British-style socialized medicine.

Yeah, that's what I want -- some guy like Huey Long in my life, holding my intravenous drip and reminding me how much I depend on him.

Rat-scum lowlifes.

[FITZ]

A collapse of medical insurance, in its entirety, is inevitable

In this region, only 32% of the population now bothers with health insurance, 34% are on Medicaid or Medicare and 34% have no insurance but expect and get their health care at no charge to them. Insured people are paying for all their own health care plus the health care of those who choose not to pay anything in.